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By us focusing on just 3 of the many powerful strategies in the Book Arbitrage business these small but systematically used techniques have had a powerful impact on our ongoing business.

To accelerate our profits we are following several strategies as recommended by the creators of this book arbitrage opportunity i.e. Jon Shugart and Luke Sample to great effect. Anyone in the community who follows these strategies see ongoing wonderful results too.

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” ~ Benjamin Franklin ~

One of the most important strategies to ongoing profitability in book arbitrage is REPRICING. Amazon reward active accounts by exposing those books to more buyers. We reprice daily which lets Amazon know that we are actively working on selling our inventory. This way we sell more books and Amazon continue to display our bookstore to more customers.

I think of it as flinging open the doors of a brick and mortar bookstore with a banner to let our customers know that we are open for business. In addition to using Amazon’s automatic repricing software we spend some time every day manually repricing to ensure ongoing sales. Our bookstore may be virtual but our due diligence isn’t and our resulting profits are real.

Another strategy we apply is we buy our books based on RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI) and sell them based on the market. What I mean by that is when we purchase a book we do so based on the ROI we expect to get based on the Keepa charts e.g. 100%. However, by the time the book arrives in Amazon via the book prep centre the market can have changed somewhat so we now sell based on the current market value.

Keepa Chart Example

We do not hold out for the 100% return on investment any longer unless the market is still selling at the percentage. We immediately reprice our books to sell which could be for a profit of 60%. That’s still a whopping return. Initially, however, we made the mistake of holding on too long and waiting for the market to go back up.

This meant that instead of receiving a profit of 60% within 30 days and reinvesting that profit 2 or 3 times we held our books at a price set for 100% ROI which took in most cases 90-120 days to recoup, based on what we had originally paid for the book, and we thereby missed out on a lot more profit in the meantime.

This is an important point in this business. The market doesn’t care what you paid for the book. Sometimes, especially in the beginning with a small inventory we can become attached to our books or our return on investment figure. This slows the whole process way down.

The way to grow this business is speed of sale and reinvestment of profits. In the above example we could’ve had 180% return with the same money, had more sales i.e. profits, more activity on our account and thereby even more sales and expansion. This business is about flipping money as quickly as possible through the sale of quality lower priced books.

Having this as your premise for your business will accelerate your profitability and ensure that your financial freedom comes quickly and easily. Who doesn’t like that?

Over time it will be possible to hold out for more profits but until we are at the hundreds of thousands in sales mark, the above strategy is the most effective by far to get us there.

The third strategy that I would like to share is to regularly change the FILTER SETTINGS in the software when searching for books. There are literally millions of books available to buy on-line. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon recently revealed that Amazon has over 100,000,000 prime customers.

That’s our target market. So there are hundreds of millions of books and there are at least one hundred million customers available. That’s powerful supply and demand by any standards.

Example: Results from 1 Filter Setting

By changing the filter settings even slightly on my search for book deals a whole new array of books are accessed. For instance, I may put books with a low ‘sales rank’ e.g. 100,000 (this means it sells really fast) and ‘price used’ between $10-$15 in the search filter. I could then change this filter setting to a sales rank of 200,000 and set the used books price at $30. This will then give me a whole new set of books in my search results to choose from. There are so many settings available and each search presents new opportunities thereby an almost endless supply of books.

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~ Jim Rohn ~

Taking this approach to our business model ensures that we are active, dynamic and successful. With this method we are really finding that there are no limits to how successful and financially free we can become.

Next, I will discuss the power of creating a compelling emotional vision for your business. This will mean that you no longer try to get there but you are coming from there which makes all the difference.